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With Cold Seep, a high tech deep sea research platform under construction,
China is plunging into the blue to the ocean's most mysterious wonders waiting to be explored.
What could this groundbreaking venture reveal about life beneath the waves?
Coming to you live from Beijing, this is Roundtable.
I'm Ha Young.
For today's program, I am joined by Steve Hatherly and Yu Xuan.
First on today's show, the ocean is a restless beast,
serene and still one moment, then surging with untamed fury the next.
Beneath its shifting surface lies a realm of wonders.
An unfathomed blue brimming with mysteries yet to be unveiled.
Now, China has set its its sights on the deep.
In Guangzhou, Guangdong province in southern China,
engineers are constructing a state of the art deep sea research platform, A gateway to the unknown.
This futuristic outpost will accommodate six explorers,
sustaining them for an entire month in the deep blue.
So tell us what's going on down there 2000 meters in the ocean?
Oh yeah.
So recently this construction has fully begun on a national major science facility dedicated to studying deep sea cold sea ecosystems in Guangzhou,